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Quotes by Philosopher
"Controversy is a last resort for the talentless."
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"In action is the worst action of human beings!"
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"To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do."
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"The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative."
Law,
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"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end."
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"The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood."
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"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law."
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"One does not only wish to be understood when one writes, one wishes just as surely not to be understood."
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"Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word."
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"Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism."
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"Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion."
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"If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools."
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"In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared."
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"It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited."
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"For greed all nature is too little."
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"Let him that would move the world first move himself."
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"Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church."
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"Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification."
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"Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must."
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"I simply took refuge among women. As you know, they don't really condemn any weakness; they would be more inclined to try to humiliate or disarm our strength. This is why woman is the reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal. She is his harbor, his haven; it is in a woman's bed that he is generally arrested. Is she not all that remains to us of earthly paradise?"
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"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."
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"The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest."
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"Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not."
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"I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized."
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"When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected."
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"The Jews are the scum of the earth, but they are also great masters in lying."
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"He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion."
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"I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome."
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"When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect."
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"Respect yourself enough to walk away from what doesn't serve you."
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"If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty."
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"Inaction is the worst action of human beings!"
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"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the ru)e."
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"The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a fact, a natural law, but an upsurge of the being which is its own nothingness of being."
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"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."
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"There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite."
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"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice."
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"If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible."
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"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
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"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness."
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"There isa time to liveand a time to diebut never to reject the moment."
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"You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face you; no one will know what you were capable of, not even you yourself."
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"Even the soberest judged it requisite to sacrifice one part of their liberty to ensure the other, as a man, dangerously wounded in any of his limbs, readily parts with it to save the rest of his body."
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